ILuvEire wrote:I know I should drop the tones, but then I'd have to use stoed, and that's hard.

I wonder, could I speak without tones or stoed?

Again, you would still be understood, but that's another dialect (for a small country Denmark has alot of them ). It would mark you as a foreigner as you're too young to have grown up speaking a dialect like that. I actually use too many stød, apparently; you can borrow some of mine

Lol! I wonder, does the Jylland dialect use stød? Fordi a kan taler det. A little bit. That's just another version of farmer I guess. XD

I know there's stød on the indefinite article, do you know the rules? Are there rules?

Weeeeeeeellll...I'm sure there are rules somewhere out there, but Danish thrives on chaos (at least seemingly). So, I think you'de better just acquire the stød by listening to Danish speakers.

Hey, I have a request. Can anyone get me the (a) happy birthday song in the Hong Kong dialect or standard Cantonese (or are they the same?) with an IPA transliteration? It would be greatly appreciated.

Stosis wrote:Hey, I have a request. Can anyone get me the (a) happy birthday song in the Hong Kong dialect or standard Cantonese (or are they the same?) with an IPA transliteration? It would be greatly appreciated.

The international version is just repeating 祝你生日快樂 [ʦʊk nei saːŋ jɐt faːi lɔːk] for 4 times.However, we use the English version more often, as the melody does not match the tone so well.

We have a classic version (祝壽歌), sung like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiMjnXPy8wVery old song but we still use it todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MyU5lxw ... re=relatedHere's a version from a comedy film(But still people use the international version more often for younger people XD)恭祝你福壽與天齊 [kʊŋ ʦʊk nei fʊk sɐu jyː tʰiːn ʦʰɐi]慶賀你生辰快樂 [hɪŋ hɔː nei saːŋ sɐn faːi lɔːk]年年都有今日 [niːn niːn tou jɐu kɐm jɐt]歲歲都有今朝 [sɵy sɵy tou jɐu kɐm ʦiːu]恭喜你 恭喜你 [kʊŋ hei nei kʊŋ hei nei]The first version sings 恭喜你地 (Congratulate you(pl.)), but we usually sing just 恭喜你 (Congratulate you(sing.))

Can you recognise this character? 商Nope, it's not shāng. It is a 囧 with a hat which 囧ed its chin off!囧囧囧囧囧囧囧囧囧!

Stosis wrote:Hey, I have a request. Can anyone get me the (a) happy birthday song in the Hong Kong dialect or standard Cantonese (or are they the same?) with an IPA transliteration? It would be greatly appreciated.

The international version is just repeating 祝你生日快樂 [ʦʊk nei saːŋ jɐt faːi lɔːk] for 4 times.However, we use the English version more often, as the melody does not match the tone so well.

We have a classic version (祝壽歌), sung like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiMjnXPy8wVery old song but we still use it todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MyU5lxw ... re=relatedHere's a version from a comedy film(But still people use the international version more often for younger people XD)恭祝你福壽與天齊 [kʊŋ ʦʊk nei fʊk sɐu jyː tʰiːn ʦʰɐi]慶賀你生辰快樂 [hɪŋ hɔː nei saːŋ sɐn faːi lɔːk]年年都有今日 [niːn niːn tou jɐu kɐm jɐt]歲歲都有今朝 [sɵy sɵy tou jɐu kɐm ʦiːu]恭喜你 恭喜你 [kʊŋ hei nei kʊŋ hei nei]The first version sings 恭喜你地 (Congratulate you(pl.)), but we usually sing just 恭喜你 (Congratulate you(sing.))

Wow, good job with the IPA transcription! You left out the tones, though.

Stosis wrote:Hey, I have a request. Can anyone get me the (a) happy birthday song in the Hong Kong dialect or standard Cantonese (or are they the same?) with an IPA transliteration? It would be greatly appreciated.

The international version is just repeating 祝你生日快樂 [ʦʊk nei saːŋ jɐt faːi lɔːk] for 4 times.However, we use the English version more often, as the melody does not match the tone so well.

We have a classic version (祝壽歌), sung like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiMjnXPy8wVery old song but we still use it todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MyU5lxw ... re=relatedHere's a version from a comedy film(But still people use the international version more often for younger people XD)恭祝你福壽與天齊 [kʊŋ ʦʊk nei fʊk sɐu jyː tʰiːn ʦʰɐi]慶賀你生辰快樂 [hɪŋ hɔː nei saːŋ sɐn faːi lɔːk]年年都有今日 [niːn niːn tou jɐu kɐm jɐt]歲歲都有今朝 [sɵy sɵy tou jɐu kɐm ʦiːu]恭喜你 恭喜你 [kʊŋ hei nei kʊŋ hei nei]The first version sings 恭喜你地 (Congratulate you(pl.)), but we usually sing just 恭喜你 (Congratulate you(sing.))

Wow, good job with the IPA transcription! You left out the tones, though.

Copied from the Wikipedia article I think it is okay to leave it, as the tone is indicated by the melody.

Can you recognise this character? 商Nope, it's not shāng. It is a 囧 with a hat which 囧ed its chin off!囧囧囧囧囧囧囧囧囧!